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Massive Rice Cooker Muffin... Cookie... Thing?

Right, the initial fruits of the 'bake' function on my nice new cooking consort.

Manual said 50 minutes, but the cooker beeped at 30. Suicide Granny informs me that I should at least double the cooking time (the poor thing is so flat!). *Sniffle* when I steamed it in my old cooker it poofed out nicely!

Next time, I shall ignore the slackerly squeals of this new rice cooking consort and double the time, at least! *shakefist*

It's still quite edible though. It isn't hardening into ice-pick stage anyway. Kinda chewy. Nom.

Invasion of the Body Coolers!

While I'm usually very admiring of PWE's nefarious marketing schemes, I think they've failed with HotK's CNY celebrations.

... technically, if you kill these snowmen, you get a chance to get a card. Collect all 5 cards, get some kind of shiny. Usually, players would be all over them. Only... the snowmen take about 2-3 minutes to kill, and you can only gain 4 cards per hour. Snowmen cages, however, load in player inventories every ?hour? or so. As a result, there's a massive invasion of snowmen that players by and large are totally uninterested in killing.

And then there's the New Year Statues.

This is a case where 'less is more' would have worked a lot better. These New Year Statues require the purchase of a US$1.75 lottery token (or key, as it's called here) before you can 'open' them.

Now, if PWE had limited them to oh, 5 tokens per character over the entire duration of the event, I'm sure they'd be worth a lot more - and more used.

As it is, I get 1 every hour (I think) that I'm online, and afk. Which strangely, has the effect of making me utterly uninclined to use them. When I only had ONE of the things... I was tempted. Now that I have 20, I'm not tempted at all. It's just easier to leave them in my inventory until the event is over. You can't even sell the things, no one wants them. I see some people trying to sell them. I see no one buying.

Add that to the fact that HotK just had an update... which bugged out the combat and made everyone hit like non-ninja bunnies - that means even MORE people sitting around town spawning even more snowmen that no one wants to kill while accumulating more New Year Statues that no one wants to buy... XD

And why, you ask, is everyone sitting around AFK instead of just logging off? Well, PWE likes to reward you for staying logged on no matter what. They don't care if you're AFK. They don't care what you do. They just want you to stay logged on. And because of that, every 30 min for the duration of this festive season, characters get a token that they can right-click for about 30% of their level's worth of xp - it scales. As well as other rewards.

And so, the snowmen slowly take over the Middle Kingdom. Hee!

Fear the cows! No, really!

You also don't mess with a cow. He points to one in the pasture nearby that they call Oreo. She's a Piney Woods, a variety of longhorn, black with a white belt around her middle. "You ride out there and try to get her to herd, she'll come after you and lift you and your horse up and throw you about thirty feet through the air. It's not like a bull. A bull will come up and bump you and run off, and he's got his little macho thing out of the way. But a cow will stand there and finish you off." When a visitor asked him once why you never saw cows in Spanish bullfights, his answer was simple: "You go wherever they fight bulls for real, and they don't fight cows. A cow won't duck her head and run at you. She'll walk right up and skewer you like a shish kebab and then stand there. She's not going to chase a cape and play the game. I would rather fool with about a hundred head of longhorns than that ol' poll Piney Wood cow."

Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell 

Reading that kinda made me wonder if the same holds true for female PvPers, terrorists, and killers. Not that I'm equating the latter two with the former. -_-

But it does make me wonder about how much the reasons why you fight influence how you fight. If you're fighting to win, so that you survive, and not simply for some reason packed with machismo (which, naturally, may discount female PvPers XD), or a good old chest-thumping reinforcement of your social status - I wonder if that's what makes females that much more ruthless, when they feel they have to be.